... EARLY STEAMBOAT TRAVEL ON THE OHIO RIVER EARLY STEAMBOAT TRAVEL ON THE OHIO RIVER BY LESLIE S HENSHAW CINCINNATI OHIO October 1911 marks a centennial of considerable importance to the Western country for it was in that month in 1811 that the first steamboat on Western waters passed down the Ohio River The boat a side-wheeler1 was built at Pittsburgh under the direction of Nicholas J Roosevelt of New York an agent of Fulton the inventor and Livingston the financial aid and was called the New ...
... MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO September 9 1922 MORNING SESSION The meeting was called to order by Treasurer Wood who moved that President James E Campbell act as Chairman of the meeting The motion was duly seconded and carried The following members were present Hon James E Campbell Prof B F Prince General J Warren Keifer George F Bareis Edward Orton Jr Henry J ...
... Ohio Researches into Archaeology Ohio Researches into Archaeology 151 incidentally in correcting a number of errors with regard to the ancient monuments of Ohio due to the superficial nature of the examinations and measurements made by different writers and the errors deliberate or otherwise in their descriptions The book is a most valuable contribution to archaeology and the state society is to be congratulated upon its enterprise in securing its preparation and publication OHIO RESEARCHES ...
... PROCEEDINGS PROCEEDINGS OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE CITY OF GALLOPOLIS OHIO October 16 17 18 and 19 1890 PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS As early as April 1890 the citizens of Gallipolis through their Board of Trade took action to secure a proper celebration of the approaching centennial of the city's settlement On April 22 1890 at a meeting of the Board of Trade the following named gentlemen were elected an Executive Committee of arrangements John L Vance Chairman C Fred Henking W B Shober ...
... 48 Ohio Arch 48 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications represent the majesty the dignity the power and the glory of this Great Republic THE GOSPEL OF BURNISHED STEEL AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE BROAD STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MAY 25 19 24 Although the Honor Roll which we are dedicating today contains names only of World War soldiers it is thought something should be said about the soldiers of former wars and perhaps in this day of mistaken pacificism something about war in general As this ...
... NOTEHISTORICAL NOTEHISTORICAL R W M'FARLAND OXFORD OHIO People familiar with the early annals of the West know something of Simon Kenton They know also of the rivalry between him and Leitchman for the hand of a young lady-that Kenton was unsuccessful in his suite-that there was a fight in consequence and that in the first encounter Kenton again lost but in the second by wrapping Leitchman's long hair about a sapling Kenton won and so severely beat his opponent that thinking him fatally injured ...
... 530 Ohio Arch 530 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications ing the records with innumerable brief sketches of the leading settlers This material will be of great value to genealogists and biographers It is rich in concise descriptions of pioneer life its perils and hardships and detailed accounts of the settlement and growth of the older communities and institutions of the county and it is perhaps not too much to say that this book contains more information and data relative to the history of ...
... Big Bottom and Its History Big Bottom and Its History 27 This was the first massacre and the principal one during the Indian war then just opening Marietta had been settled two years before and Big Bottom as this place was then known was an overflow from that place and comprised altogether thirty-six persons The year before several other settlements were established from Marietta but thus far this was the most remote No state in the Union was settled by a more worthy or enterprising class of ...
... SOURCES OF THE NAMES OF THE COUNTIES SOURCES OF THE NAMES OF THE COUNTIES OF THE WESTERN RESERVE By FREDERICK C WAITE An examination of the names of the eighty-eight counties in Ohio shows that over half of these names commemorate individuals such as signers of the Declaration of Independence generals in the Revolutionary War early presidents of the United States and statesmen of the early period of our national history A considerable number of county names are of Indian origin Part of these ...
... A New Letter of Hiram Powers A New Letter of Hiram Powers By THOMAS B BRUMBAUGH Make me as I am Mr Powers and be true to nature always and in everything Andrew Jackson reportedly told the sculptor Hiram Powers 1805-1873 born in Vermont trained as a young man in Watson's clock factory in Cincinnati and later employed by Dorfueille's Western Museum scarcely needed such advice for on the road to making High Art he had also been a maker of writhing wax figures controlled by automatic insides for ...
... THE AARON BURR CONSPIRACY IN THE OHIO THE AARON BURR CONSPIRACY IN THE OHIO VALLEY MISS LESLIE HENSHAW CINCINNATI What the movement known as the Burr Conspiracy really was will probably never be accurately known It might have been one of three things first a filibustering expedition directed against Spain second a plan to revolutionize the West and join this section with Louisiana to form a new republic third a scheme to join the Western States and Louisiana with Spanish America to form an ...
... OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PART 6 OHIO MEDICAL HISTORY--PART 6 THE VAULTING IMAGINATION OF JOHN L RIDDELL By ADOLPH E WALLER Whatever makes the past or future predominate over the present exalts us in the scale of thinking beings--Johnson The name of John Leonard Riddell is perhaps best remembered today for his Synopsis of the Western Plants In 1835 when this was published Cincinnati was the western-most city of great size with around 35000 inhabitants and with immediate perhaps daily expansion in ...
... 422 Ohio Arch 422 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FOURTH SESSION At the Saturday morning meeting President Randall turned the program over to Prof F P Goodwin of Woodward High School Cincinnati who conducted the meeting in the interest of teachers of history After some preliminary remarks regarding the value of local history as illustrative of national movements and of methods designed to utilize it in this way Mr Goodwin introduced the chief speaker of the morning Prof Arthur W Dunn ...
... 210 Ohio Arch 210 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Presbyterianism on Walnut Hills have all aided to make the Church History of the Ohio Valley the record of its civilization and progress And not alone in Cincinnati but throughout the Western Country this influence was felt Upon the Bible's sacred page The gathered beams of ages shine And as it hastens every age But makes its brightness more divine More glorious still as ages roll New regions blessed new powers unfurled Expanding with ...
... THE MAKING OF PINE TAR IN HOCKING THE MAKING OF PINE TAR IN HOCKING COUNTY BY PASCAL A BRIGHT One of the primitive industries in southern Ohio where pine trees are found native was the making of pine tar In the summer of 1929 in company with Mr Emory Bainter who then lived on Big Pine Creek Mr A L Burgess of Columbus whose photographs have done so much to help popularize the state parks and his son I was on a trip in the park region of Hocking County We were in the hollow which contains Sand ...
... 228 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 228 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY in Europe and we are becoming politically alive in every direction that there exists as never before the possibility of cultivating such a higher form of political science and history This new political science will not aim primarily at dictating political decisions but prepare the ground for such decisions it will reveal and illuminate combinations in the realm of politics and history which ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OHIO STATE HISTORY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION This is the title of a substantially bound appropriately illustrated and carefully indexed volume of 643 pages compiled and edited by Mrs Annie Jopling Lester Ohio State Historian of the Daughters of the American Revolution The dedication is to Mrs Lowell Fletcher Hobart State Regent of Ohio 1923-1926 There is an opening sketch of three compact pages giving full ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS A convention of the International Society of Archaeologists was held at Cincinnati on September 29th 1912 The meeting had been called as a semi-official gathering but the large attendance and enthusiastic sessions resulted in its being voted an official convention - the first of the organization The sessions were held at Art Museum arrangements for this privilege having been made by Mr Philip Hinkle curator of that institution ...
... THE COXEY MOVEMENT IN OHIO THE COXEY MOVEMENT IN OHIO BY OSMAN C HOOPER The Coxey movement of 1894 was a fantastic expression at a critical moment of the industrial unrest prevalent for a period centering about that date It was an Ohio product sprung from a Western seed Named for its Ohio patron Jacob S Coxey its real author and promoter was Carl Browne a lieutenant of Denis Kearney in the days of sand-lot politics The number of unemployed men was large and discontent was widespread so that ...
... Brilliant Thoughts and Important Truths A Speech of Frederick Douglass ed it ed by LARRY G ARA In the spring of 1852 Frederick Douglass visited Cincinnati to attend an antislavery convention Douglass a former slave had already gained national renown as a writer editor and speaker1 While in Cincinnati Douglass frequently spoke and also took the occasion to carry his message to another town in the area Harveysburg in Warren County Ohio where he addressed a church congregation In his speech2 ...